Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1887-03-18
ANOTHER HORROR.
Twsnty-Tour Persons killed.
A Boston Suburban Train Goes
Through a Bridge-one Hun
dred and Fourteen Per-
sons Hurt.

BosroN, MASS, March l4.--An &C.
cident which equals, 1t does not SUR
pass in number ofdead and wounded,
the recent horrible railroad disaster
near Hartford, VT, occurred in the
suburbs of this city this morning on
the Boston & Providence railroad.
AS the Dedham branch train, which
leaves Dedham at Z ;05 a. m. and is
due at Boston at Z :40a. M, was pass
ing over the Bussey Park bridge
which crosses South street between
Forest hill and Roslindale, about a
mile from Jamaica PLAIN, the struct-
ure gave way and six cars heavily
laden with human beings plunged 80
feet to the roadway beneath. Three
of the nine cars which composed the
train remained on the embankment,
having crossed the bridge in safety,
but they were wrenched from the
rails and nearly demolished.
The train was one Of the largest
and heaviest on the morning list, and
as usual, it was heavily loaded with
people going TO their work in the city.
1t is wonder that any escaped alive,
and, as it is, the names Of the dead
will number about "a and perhaps
more.
Conductor Tilden was in the third
car, which remained on top of the
embankment, and on the ground di-
rectly Underneath where he was stand
ing when killed is pool of blood,
while half of the debris of that coach
is spattered with blood. That the hor-
rors of fire were not added to the ter
rible disaster was due to the prompt
ness with which relief was sent.
The scene directly after the accident
was heart-rending. The shrieks of
the injured were so loud that they
were heard in the residences in the
vicinity. The bodies of the killed
were horribly mangled, in some in
stances their heads being entirely sew
cred from their bodies, and many of
the bodies were crushed almost be-
yond recognition. In one place sew
en- bodies taken out of the wreck |
were placed in row. All were bad
Iy mangled. Large numbers of w6m-
'n were on the train and many were
o be seen in the ruins. One woman
vas cut completely in two, the upper
lalf only being found. Two men who
we're saved had their faces hacked,
md the lips of one were cut of. I'm
ler the car in which Conductor Til
len was killed the breast and lungs
fla human being were found. In the
and through the adjacent
pasture car-seat cushions, car-wheels
md trucks were scattered, and in the
plinters of the wreck were human
'odies, pools Of blood, and fragments
4 human flesh which had literally
'een gouged from the victims.
BosToN, March 15.-It is now be-
ieved that the reports of the number
'fpeople killed by the wreck have
'een considerably overestimated. Up
o noon to-day DR.. Draper had sign
d twenty-one death certificates and
Dr.. Harris three, making the entire
cath total up to noon twenty-four
he revised list of dead is as follows
Mrs. Ida Adams, Boston; Mrs.
larry E. Brooks, West Roxbury; AL.
ce Burnett, Roslindale; Mrs. Hormis-
las Cardinal, Roslindale; Webster
Ilapp, West Roxbury Hattie j. Dud-
ey, residence unknown; VIM. E. Dur
lam, residence unknown; Miss Sa-
ali E. Ellis, Medfield 0. Harry Gay,
Boston; Emma p. Hill. Boston
stephen Houghton, West Roxbury;
Albert L. Johnson, Roslindalc; Wal
10 D. Lalor, West Roxbury; Lizzie
Vaudeville, Dedham; Miss Norris.
Vest Roxbury; Edward Norris, Ded-
am Miss NJ. L. Odrion, Dover, N.
l.; Miss Laura Price, Roslindale
Vm. Edgar Snow, West Roxbury
'eter Swaben, Boston ;Wm. E. Strong,
Vest Roxbury; Conductor Myron
'ilden, Dcdham; Rasobella Welch,
Vest Roxbury.
A revised list of the injured shows
IA persons were wounded.